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Ambassador Frank Hines represented the U.S. last week in signing an agreement giving the U.S. 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. But the Panamanian Government had to work fast to have a signer (Acting Foreign Minister Francisco A. Filos) on hand for the ceremony. Rather than put his name to the agreement, Foreign Minister Ricardo J. Alfaro had resigned...
Black Ties. There were Argentine lunches, Panamanian drinks, and Mexican decoration ceremonies. There was the opera, with Gigli singing in La Tosca and tiaras sparkling from the boxes. One night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati Palace. While a company of 120-the men in black ties and the women in low-cut gowns-nibbled pheasant and sipped champagne, swans glided in a candlelit pool and ballet dancers whirled on a special stage. Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept...
...last week Max Brodsky, a trusted Flaxer staffman, arrived in Panama to help run U.P.W.A.'s membership drive. And there were reports that Communists were buying Panamanian citizenship so as to qualify for civil service jobs on locks and docks. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee headed by Minnesota's Ed Thye got ready to investigate the whole situation...
Less than a year ago the only unions in the Zone worth mentioning were the A.F.L. affiliates, to which most of the 5,000 U.S.-born workers belonged. Then' the U.P.W.A. saw its chance, and sent organizers among the Canal Zone's 25,000 Panamanian and West Indian employees, most of whom lived in crowded slums across the fence in Panama. They found a Communist's dream. Ready for their exploiting was one of the worst examples of racial discrimination extant anywhere, and it was sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
...horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood...